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Christian Volkmann has been teaching at the City College of New York since 2005. He became a Full-time Professor in 2008. He currently coordinates the 3rd Year Undergraduate Design Studio and the Technology curriculum for both Undergraduate and Graduate programs. Christian graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

June Williamson, R.A., is associate professor in the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, teaching in the architecture and urban design programs. She is author of Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb (Island Press, 2013) and co-author, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solution for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, 2009; Updated Edition, 2011), winner of

Born in Madrid, Spain, Julio Salcedo holds a B.A. in architecture and sculpture from Rice University, and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. He is an Associate Professor of Architecture at The City College of New York and the principal of Scalar Architecture—an award-winning design firm based in New York City.  Professor Salcedo has taught at

Elisabetta Terragni, a graduate of the Milan Polytechnic, is principal of her studio in Como (Italy) and a recently tenured faculty member at CCNY. She has taught studios and seminars at universities in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the U.S. Her studio seeks sensitive solutions for everyday situations and inventive transformations of industrial and obsolete sites.

Jeremy Edmiston’s focus on complex geometry in architecture produces striking design, but he is also a leader in digital technology to construct prefab structures, which allow precision and innovation in materials and budgets, high speed in construction, and minimal environmental impact. These technological advances are especially relevant to contemporary cities, another focus of Edmiston, whose projects